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Thanks for thinking of me @prefab1 Hmm, we got very close with Gilly/Vivian (I'd almost just count it considering how gross it was). Nothing else comes to mind on GL right now, but on AMC, pretty much Hayley/Arlene with Alec (Grant A) haha.

Ah c'mon - we didn't get to see Doug's death at all?? So I guess yesterday was the last we got from Doug. How sad. I really enjoyed yesterday's scenes.

Dani: "Who gets black out drunk like this?" Umm... you did the entire first 4 months of this show 🤣

Much better episode yesterday and great ending. I actually really felt the Vanessa/Doug phone call scenes, and when he found out Joey was there with her, I felt that hurt. Great scenes. Naomi freaking out about the rings makes sense to me, seems normal for most women, except the symbolism/worry about the marriage breaking apart if she can't find them, that part was odd. Although did I miss a scene, how did Naomi get the rings in her bedroom after June realized they may be hers... did she come deliver them, did Jacob go get them? That was confusing. Did they expand their bedroom set? I don't remember the space with the mirror. The set for Vanessa/Joey seemed new too, I wonder which existing set they changed up for it.

Yay, love to hear it! You won't regret that decision haha ♥️

I love to hear this I know you're so into OLTL right now, but I can't wait until you get back to AMC. I think the idea of watching 1 episode of each, each time, is great! You are going to love the Dixie/Tad storyline, I think.

But 1997 is the year AMC won the Emmy for Best Drama! I actually really liked it, but I could see how some thought it was dark. I was a teenager, so maybe this makes more sense, but I was so intrigued/invested in the Tanner/Hayley/Mateo storyline... gosh, when he kidnapped her during the airplane flight and we watched Mateo rescue her! They got married right after that in the hospital, it was so sweet. Being a big Hayley/Mateo fan, that was thrilling and I loved watching Mateo play hero.

Thanks for sharing this link! I've been wondering why they chose this episode/year to start, and their reason makes sense now to me. Although some of those bullet points happened well beforehand (i.e. the 1994 tornado and aftermath haha).

That's a very good point. I think back to when Annie first came on and how much I loved her and Josh together, because she seemed like a sweet girl and was such a caring step-mother... so to think she was always a schemer and was essentially a fugitive on the loose, is odd. I guess the only thread I could pull on is her past with Rick in Chicago when it was revealed she was an alcoholic. I'm just curious now if Eddie was before or after Rick and whether Rick would have known about Eddie (assuming not). They didn't have Rick in this storyline at all towards the end, so we never got his perspective over Annie's final descent.

Ohhh I see it! That's a smart system, thanks for sharing! Always grateful for the Vault!

This is what I really want to see! Dinah has deserved it so many times.

For some reason, I'm not seeing it yet, but maybe it just needs time to update on my end - I'll check again in the morning. Thanks for doing that! Thanks!!! The updates came through on my end Hopefully I'll be able to see the new/clean Feb 10 episode soon.

I had the same thoughts and agree with every single point here

I was happy that Martin told Smitty the truth about Samantha seeing June, and they didn't spread that out for a long period of time. I'm team Smitty on this one, so far. Also good to see Derek's friends actually checking on him. Overall, still a bit bored since Chelsea's kidnapping storyline.

I’m up to February 06, 1998. Annie and Alan’s wedding day begins and Annie starts it by cornering Josh and taunting him that she’ll be happier than ever. She forces him into a kiss, which he backs out of and they cryptically wish each other for whatever things that happen, to come to them soon. Dinah is able to steal the piece of paper out of Reva’s purse that has the big secret she has on Annie, so now Dinah knows. Just as the wedding is about to start, Cassie realizes Dinah has the paper and pleads with her to give it back, but Dinah ends up lighting it on fire. During the ceremony, Dinah/Cassie argue in a back room and Dinah vows to support Annie and stop the righteous Lewis family. Just as she tries to leave, Cassie grabs her arm and punches her!!! She then gags and ties her up so she can’t stop them from revealing the secret. Dinah deserved that haha. Since the paper is gone, their only chance is to have Eddie Banks show up with the truth, so they’re desperately trying to reach him. Harley is able to delay the wedding by stealing the rings, but Phillip gets agitated and gets them back. Annie/Alan say their vows, exchange rings, and just before they’re pronounced husband and wife, Eddie Banks storms through the door. Reva escorts him in and announces Alan/Annie can’t get married because Annie is married to Eddie! Annie starts denying it, but Eddie shows the marriage license. She continues denying it and pleads with Alan not to believe him. Eddie tells everyone about how she was presumed dead and he spent time in jail for her. Alan calmly apologizes to the guests and dismisses them. Annie tells Reva she will never win and she will beat her, as Alan escorts her away. Alan then dresses Annie down in private, says he despises her and walks out. Phillip sees Harley/Reva/Josh celebrating and gets upset with Harley for using him to stall the wedding. Harley said she didn’t think he’d mind, but Phillip angrily says that was his father and you can’t humiliate them like that. Beth overhears them arguing about it all. Later, they apologize to each other and we’re back to normal with these two. Frank announces to Reva/Josh that Eddie’s claims are all checked out and true and Annie will go away for a long time on drug charges, fraud and bigamy. Wow! Frank then cuffs Annie and walks her through the crowd with cameras rolling and snapping; like a complete walk of shame. Annie is very stoic and calmly tells the audience at the top of the stairs “Thank you all for coming”, and walks out. Watros really nailed these scenes and I can see why she won the Emmy with this episode. Later, Eddie visits Annie in jail and she tries to con him by pretending to be in love with him again, trying to convince him they can have it all together. Eddie, who seems very gullible and still actually in love with her, almost seems to believe her, but Reva drops in and stops it. Eddie leaves and Reva taunts Annie quite a bit, leaving Annie to tell her that she’ll get out of jail one way or the other. Later, Alan visits Annie and tells her he’s been given a subpoena to testify in her extradition case (to Ohio). He also tells her in the fine print of the contract she signed are conditions that she violated and now all of her Spaulding stock is his and she’s left with nothing. Simply Annie (perfume line) is also dead and Alan has instructed Michael to destroy everything he’s created. He leaves while she screams that she hates him and he’s lousy in bed LOL. She then tries seducing a young, nervous officer and ends up kissing him. She later has her extradition hearing and Griffin, who is judge, ruled that the state of Ohio must take her and Reva/Josh celebrate the win. Annie then seduces the young police officer again and ends up knocking him out, stealing his keys and escaping jail! She goes to Ben Warren for help and money, and they agree to work together. Annie then goes to Reva’s house in a police uniform and attacks Reva. Marah sees it and scream for help, Annie runs off and tells Reva she’ll be back to get her. Later, Reva convinces Cassie/Hart to go on their trip to Puerto Rico, she has the kids sent to stay with Rusty, and she gets out her gun and says she’ll be ready for Annie the next time she comes back! Holly and Fletcher argue throughout the wedding about moving Meg and family to Toronto. She then strangely confides in Roger about their argument, in front of Fletcher, to which Roger is confused why she would tell him this information, and then she walks off (uhh Holly, still have feelings?). Later, Roger tells her she’s his touchstone, most significant thing ever in his life. Fletcher then admits to Holly that part of the reason he wants to move away is to get away from Roger so they can focus on their family without his interference. Amanda tells Alan she wants nothing to do with Annie and her new perfume line. She wants to take over Spaulding West and move back to the west coast. Roger doesn’t take the news well, but Amanda promises to give half of Spaulding West to Roger when they get married. Rick visits Michelle and she tells him she and Jesse have the WSPR tape and hid it at the lighthouse. Meanwhile, Jesse has thrown it away in the trash which Drew then takes out to the dumpster, but Shayne takes it out of the trash and brings it home with him. Abby is babysitting the kids and Shayne wants to record his cartoons over the tape. He starts playing the tape with the court room footage, but they get interrupted and don’t pay attention and the tape gets back into a pile of VHS tapes. Shayne ends up telling Ben about the tape, while Ross/Abby/Jesse realize Shayne probably has it from the trash, so it’s a race to get to the tape first. Ben ends up getting it first by paying a man to steal it from the Lewis house. Matt sees Ross about his legal ability to force Vanessa into an early C-section. Ross says one way he could do that is by declaring her mentally incompetent. Meanwhile, Vanessa tearfully confides in Jenna, who at first sides with Matt, but then says she’s going to support Vanessa in anything she wants to do. Matt later tells Vanessa he met with Ross and what he intends to do if she won’t have the C-section and she flips out and says if he goes through with it, it’ll be the worst mistake of his life. OMG - Ross/Blake/Holly are chatting at home about Meg and Vanessa storms in, and without a word, slaps Ross LOL! Vanessa tells Blake/Holly about Matt’s lawsuit and they’re upset with Ross about it. Vanessa then falls in pain because her disease is coming back and they rush her to the hospital. Rick then tells Vanessa she’s in labor! She needs a blood transfusion and Holly has the right blood type, so she volunteers. Baby Maureen is then born! Sadly, she’s experiencing signs of kidney malfunction, which they want to keep from Vanessa. But, Matt tells Vanessa he wasn’t really going through with the lawsuit, she believes him and they make up. Vanessa keeps fainting at the hospital and she goes into cardiac arrest and then slips into a coma. Bill (finally!) shows up to the hospital. Oh no, Vanessa sees the white light and says she’s dying. She then sees Maureen in the white light and they hug, effectively making the viewer think Vanessa is dead and in heaven (Friday cliffhanger!). But surely Vanessa doesn’t really die, right? Can’t be. While at the hospital, Roger tells Holly that he’s moving to California, and if she moves to Canada, they’ll probably never see each other again. Dinah goes to the farm to take some of her stuff out and catches Cassie/Hart making out together in the barn. Lots of Dinah whining and screaming and Hart/Cassie sticking together. Dinah then calls her lawyer and asks her to look into a man named Rob Layne (Cassie’s ex husband and father of Tammy). Meanwhile, Tammy confides in Cassie that she really likes Hart, but misses her real dad. Beth tries seducing Phillip yet again, by getting into her lingerie and asking them to get back together. Phillip says they’re never getting back together and she cries, runs out of the mansion past Harley, and gets hit by a car! Phillip is distraught thinking she is dead, but she wakes up and he apologizes to her. At the hospital, Beth tells Lillian what happens and Lillian thinks she could have gotten out of the way of the car and may be suicidal over Phillip not wanting her back.

For the GL fans: -The Feb 10, 1998 episode doesn't work (it looks corrupted) -The March 3, 1998 episode is mislabeled as March 6; which means March 3 is really March 4, March 4 is really March 5, and March 5 is really March 6. Hope that makes sense, but those 4 episodes just need to be renamed so they're in order. Thanks again for all you do!

LOL - that clone seems pretty weak! So Michael just explained to Josh how it will all work. It’ll be an exact physical copy, but she won’t have Reva’s life experiences. Ok, my question - how can you guarantee this clone will love Josh, and how would she have any memories of Reva’s, like if someone were to ask questions or bring up stories, could she contribute? Seems like it would be a dead giveaway to everyone...

Y'all, I'm now to the beginning of the Reva clone storyline. 🤣 I'm sure my thoughts will be all over the place as it goes along, but it's definitely 1) interesting/different, but 2) getting into DAYS territory and seems like a real stretch LOL. I didn't realize it was a spawn of Annie (Watros') exit storyline though - that part is interesting. I'm very curious to see how Reva survives this plane crash though LOL.

Yep - exactly right, good memory! I just watched all of this and thought it was so odd how quickly things got scrapped and you could tell they didn't know what to do with Drew or her dad. It seems like Marcus/Dahlia finally got a storyline again after being MIA for several months/almost a year, but then that storyline abruptly dropped just as Drew joined it, Drew was then 'cut off' for being spoiled, got hired at Company by J. She was a horrible waitress, but then J left and that waitress/Company story stalled. Now I'm just seeing her getting with Jesse. But it was so odd seeing her name in the end credits as a contract player and she was only on ~15 episodes over her first 3-4 months with the show.

Haha love it! It's so catchy.

It's funny and TT is doing a great job, you can tell she's loving it. But the reason behind it... the idea of them actually getting married, is dumb to me.

What in the fresh hell is this Vegas stuff? Is that supposed to be a drag impersonator for Anita? Are they really serious about them getting married? This is silly.

Reminders of Vanessa/Matt's beginning... look how giddy she looks watching Matt shirtless and wet Pretty sexy scenes here!

LOL - you always crack me up with these digs at Matt

You're welcome! And you're so right, I've noticed over the past several months how much storyline they churn through. I'm having to take many more notes as I watch (which I love). I don't mind the pace as long as the storylines work and I'm entertained, which I have been. Yeah they dropped J so quickly out of nowhere, and he didn't even really get a storyline with Drew. I think they had 1-2 episodes where he hired her at Company and she was doing an awful job, but they never really hinted at any romance or storyline between the two of them. In fact, Drew is barely used in her first 3-4 months at GL. They seemed to drop the Sugar Hill storyline so quickly, which is what brought her into the show. My only guess is Taye Diggs couldn't keep up with the daytime schedule, because he flubbed lines pretty often. Jesse's father actually got a recast just before Abby's trial where she kills Roy. I had wondered why they did that, but I guess maybe the original actor's schedule picked up. I hate to admit this, but I've actually warmed up to Ben a little. He's dreadful when he's in court or making decisions to bring Ross down, but he shines when he's flirting with women (Beth/Blake). It's strangely sexy to me... we'll see how long that lasts haha. I hated Reva's house too. To your point, it wasn't warm or comfortable looking. I'm excited to see how Watros goes out and where the Annie story continues, since I know she gets a recast. Yeah they really used Watros a ton in these last few months. Dinah has really annoyed the crap out of me since she and Hart broke up. She's lashing out again like she used to in 1995 and it's so off-putting to me. I love Wendy, and she does a great job with the Dinah character, but man she's so mean and entitled sometimes.